Writer Amy Bloom Reflects On Her Husband's Assisted Suicide

Fresh Air - A podcast by NPR

Shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2019, architect Brian Ameche, then in his mid-60s, told his wife, novelist Amy Bloom, that he wanted to end life on his own terms, before the disease robbed him of everything. Bloom talks about how she traveled with him to Zurich so he could legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is In Love.Ken Tucker reviews Del McCoury's album Almost Proud.

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